Your current Fish tank Setups!

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Tank is a Fishbox 120L. This is an old piccie, need to get an updated one. When this was taken, it was stocked with 11 x Tiger Barbs, 5 Neon's and a plec.

Now have a big piece of bogwood where the bridge was, with an airstone behind, and a sunken house ornament in place of the log for Peter The Plec to live in :D Stocking is now, 9 Neon's, 1 Plec, 1 Tiger Barb, 2 3 spot Gourami's, and 1 Opaline Gourami.
 
Charlatan said:
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Tank is a Fishbox 120L. This is an old piccie, need to get an updated one. When this was taken, it was stocked with 11 x Tiger Barbs, 5 Neon's and a plec.

Now have a big piece of bogwood where the bridge was, with an airstone behind, and a sunken house ornament in place of the log for Peter The Plec to live in :D Stocking is now, 9 Neon's, 1 Plec, 1 Tiger Barb, 2 3 spot Gourami's, and 1 Opaline Gourami.[/QUOTE]

i would say lose the stingray filter as they are pants, unless you have stuff it full of media.

the fluval Ux series are really good.

get a more recent pic up too :)
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Heres a few of my tank about a year ago.

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The Discus have doubled in size since and plants have all changed about 4x since this. Will update some pictures when I have time.
 
It's funny, before my Nan recently decided to get a tank, I had no interest in fish whatsoever. Having seen her aquarium come on nicely, I fear I may have picked up the bug. I've learned so much over the last few months.

Unfortunately, I don't have the room for anything at the moment. I'm currently lodging with the 'rents and have a fairly small amount of space for most essential items, let alone a fish tank. When I get my backside in gear and get my own place, I'm fairly certain I'm going to get a tank. I can watch a fish tank for hours - I find them absolutely fascinating. It's like watching a whole miniature enviroment and there's always something going on.
 
Tank is due for a clean tonight so will try and get a few pics.

Have been missing out on ferts and carbon recently for the plants so some have started to die off a bit and the Vallis is taking over as usual. Still considering the switch to Cichlids but just cannot bring myself to get rid of Steve and George (Bristlenose and Clown plecs).

So jealous of the marine tanks however but I cannot justify the cost or space. Also think the Mrs would hate the sound of a running skimmer in our living room!
 
utajoker said:
i would say lose the stingray filter as they are pants, unless you have stuff it full of media.

the fluval Ux series are really good.

get a more recent pic up too :)
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Will post a pic in a sec, quality isnt great tho from my phone lol.

We have a good Interpret PF3 filter that came with it, which is on the left hand side. The Stingray was put in there from our previous tank for it's mature filter media, just never got round to taking it out!

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hey guys, im looking at buying a Fluval Edge tank as a nice feature in the house, what tips in terms of style, things to put in it, fish to put in it, could you give me as a nice low effort, nice looking beginers aquarium, that needs little maintenence or knowledge so that i dont kill anything.....
 
utajoker said:
Mine only cost about £1200 to get to that stage. Now I'm up to the expensive part of buying corals.
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Still about £900 more than I had to spend on fresh tropical.

Marine will require a brand new tank etc as I dont have the space for a sump in mine and its had too much through it to even try and clean.

Still. Maybe one day!
 
It's hard to get a decent picture so a video will have to do.


Yesterday I drained the whole tank, removed the old gravel which was white and quite big stones, and clanged it for black and white stuff which is far finer, I read this is better for the bottom feeders. Did a 50% water change while I was at it, and got rid of all the snails again!

Current stock is:
6x Dalmatian Mollies
6x Neon Tetras
6x Tiger Barbs
3x Algae Eaters (Not sure what they are called, little sucker fish of some sort!)
2x Zebra Loach

Quite happy with it at the moment, may get a few more in the new year.

One question, do you guys feed your fish once or twice daily? I've always fed them once a day but someone told me twice?
 
eXist said:
hey guys, im looking at buying a Fluval Edge tank as a nice feature in the house, what tips in terms of style, things to put in it, fish to put in it, could you give me as a nice low effort, nice looking beginers aquarium, that needs little maintenence or knowledge so that i dont kill anything.....
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because they are quite small they really limit your choice of fish. a few have set them up in this thread though i believe.



ShadowMan said:
Marine will require a brand new tank etc as I dont have the space for a sump in mine and its had too much through it to even try and clean.

Still. Maybe one day!
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you dont need a sump :) i dont have one.
 
1uke, your plants look great. I'm not very happy with mine at the moment.. I've had some blue green algae recently but partially solved it by dosing my nitrates using potassium nitrate (they were at 0).

The plants in my tank never really seem to take hold.

What kind of substrate are you using? Do you dose CO2? Any thing else I might be missing?

Cheers!
 
Kristoph said:
1uke, your plants look great. I'm not very happy with mine at the moment.. I've had some blue green algae recently but partially solved it by dosing my nitrates using potassium nitrate (they were at 0).

The plants in my tank never really seem to take hold.

What kind of substrate are you using? Do you dose CO2? Any thing else I might be missing?

Cheers!
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Hey,

I use Flourish Excel as a Co2 substitute. I tried yeast for a few months but found it just caused algae and no better than flourish excel etc. I would like to inject co2 as the only thing I haven't managed to grow with my current setup is dwarf grass which I have heard needs co2 injected unfortunately.

For plant food I'm abit lazy and just use Flourish Comprehensive Supplement which seems to keep all my plants healthy and growing really quick.

For a Substrate I use Caribsea Eco Complete Live. Its fairly expensive if your setting up a large tank.

The only time I have bad algae outbreaks is if I forget to dose the Flourish Excel and plant Supplement for a few days. I have pretty good filtering on this 240ltr tank 2x Tetratec Ex1200s. And have 4 tubes of T5 lights on 8 hours a day. I will try get some updated pictures this weekend as things are flourishing nicely atm.
 
Had my 60l tank for a few years now & really want to move up to something larger.

I've seen an Aqua One 980 tank in a local shop for about £300 & it looked stunning, has anyone here used one......good or bad?
 
Aqua one are awful, cheap chinese rubbish. Stick to big brands like hagen/juwel.

Near on impossible to get spares for aqua one and they are just a dreadful company to deal with.
 
My son has a small Aqua one in his bedroom and it seems really well made to me.... What spares are you ever going to need as fish tanks are pretty simple?
 
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